Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Ethics Artifact
Assignment 3-Week 3
Christian Gonzalez
04/9/2017
Contents
Week 3 2
Justice as Fairness............................................................................................................................4
Different Ethics................................................................................................................................5
Summarize.......................................................................................................................................7
Week 3 3
Ethics, to me means a sense of understanding ones responsibilities. It is doing well even when
nobody is watching. Making the decision of good or bad behavior in the work place, or showing
how much you care about your job duties. Ethics is the moral principle that makes the decisions
of ones behavior. Ethics is the behavior that we use in work or out of work, its a reflection of
our moral principles. Some elements of ethics we can use at work are professionalism,
ethics energizes us and our employees to face challenges head on, by being the best and keeping
us at the top of our game. Other factors that demonstrate a strong work ethics can be integrity,
sense of responsibility, emphasis on quality, discipline, and sense of teamwork. All these are
great factors of work ethics, however I feel that integrity is the most important one of all five.
The main reason I state this is because ethics itself talks about the moral principles of our
behavior. Integrity is all about the cause and effects of our behavior, integrity fosters trusting
relationships with clients, coworkers and supervisors. Our coworkers value our ability to give
honest feedback and clients trust the advice we give them. Our supervisors rely on our high
moral standards, trusting us not to steal from the company or create problems. For example, lets
say Im an employee at a staffing agency and its my responsibility to drug test new hires. One of
the new hires is friends with my supervisor, and his drug test comes back positive for illegal
substance. It is my responsibility to let the supervisor know of this, however once I bring it to his
attention he sees the name on the test and asked me to write it off as clear for employment. If I
agree with him not only am I losing my integrity but I have lowered my work ethics and lost part
of my moral principles. To keep all my integrity I would politely response by saying, sorry and
no Im not going to write it off as good for employment. If I lose my job over my actions I at
Week 3 4
least know I did the right thing and that person is not going to put someones life in danger in the
work place. And ethics now becomes work or organizational ethics, which are the principals and
standards that a business operates by. In other words, it shows how much the business or
organization expresses the values it has to its employees and how they handle their own laws,
policies, and regulations. These principals and standards are demonstrations of actions and
fairness, compassion, integrity, honor and responsibility. Like I mention on top its about doing
the right thing, its about being fair with everyone. A reflection of our behavior and the sense of
our responsibility.
Justice as Fairness
The theory that I personally feel I abide by is the ethical theory of justice as fairness. The ethical
theory of justice as fairness stands for the belief that each person has to be giving what he or she
deserves or give each person his or her due. Justice and fairness are somewhat related, they are
both terms that are used interchangeably. Justice is used with reference to a standard of rightness.
While fairness is used with regard to an ability to judge without reference to ones feelings or
interest. This is why I believe that I abide by the ethical theory of justice as fairness. If a person
is well educated and had good work experience he or she deserve a shot at a good opportunity of
employment. If that same person once working and has great work ethics and high values, that
same person deserves a pay raise or promotions. In todays world all people expect of you is hard
work and excellent performance, which theres nothing wrong with that. However they give the
promotion or pay raise to the person that hardly performs or has a relationship to management. I
got my first associate in business administration, but after seeing so much bad judgment and
again from the bottom, but this time it was for human resource and organization behavior. I told
Week 3 5
myself once I had a leash on management I will make all the right choices and give the
employees the opportunities they deserve based on their hard work and performance and not by
I develop my style of ethics by doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. My particular
style of ethics consist of a few factors or characteristics. The most important of this
that by doing the right thing even when someone asks you not to, you show integrity and at that
time you know you have more value than that person. By me showing that I care about the
quality and being committed to my job it shows my sense of responsibility. I am a hard worker, I
take no short cuts, and Im diligent. Dedication and determination are what I stand for and what
Im committed too. What I mean is that I set goals for myself and no matter all the chaos life
throws at me I never take my vision off my dreams. I know there is always a solution to any
issue I may face and I know I can get pass it to achieve my goals. Thanks to all I learned in this
course and all my previous courses I can apply them in my life. Thanks to all of my study and
Different Ethics
If a person shares my same ethics he or she knows what I or we stand for. But a person that does
not share my ethical style, I really hope I get a chance to influence that person. The way I would
like to influence that person is by leading by example. Ill bring to the table all my moral
Week 3 6
principles and values, and work ethics. By showing and putting to play my personal beliefs that
over a period of year have gain, it would allow me to change that persons opinions and attitude.
By targeting their attitude I can change or modify their corrupted information and now their
personal attitude becomes personal values. Once their values have changed they can carry
personnel principles it becomes their strong convictions and contribute to the development of
their moral orientation. The definition of what we consider to be right. I feel if Im able to
influence this person he or she might want to do the same one day for some else. If we have
more people that do whats right there be a lot less unfairness in organizations.
My values and morals would have a huge impact in my behavior as a leader. As we know values
are an individuals judgment or standard of behavior and morals are another individual
characteristic that can affect an individuals ethic. They are more like rules people develop as a
result of cultural norms and values and are, traditionally, what employees learn from their
childhood, culture, education, religion. My ethics would influence my behavior as a leader in the
way of leading by example. I do believe in no good deed goes unseen. What I mean is every
causes has an effect. So if a good cause is perform a good effect well happen. For example, if my
ethical behavior is to do the right in my work place, in time other will pick up on it and they
would start using the same work ethics. So lets say I work at a restaurant taking orders up front
in the register. The restaurant does not ask us to take the order to customers table. But I decide
to do so anyway because it a good deed and its going beyond what the restaurant asks of us.
Eventually other employees see this action and they start doing it too. That would be the effect or
The way I would help develop the ethics of an organization would be my making or developing a
code of conduct. In my code of conduct it would explain why its important and why we must
use good ethics. For example, some of the ethics would be arriving on time to work even when
the boss is not there. By arriving on time it shows other that you care about your job. Write down
a daily tasks for every day of the week and try to accomplish all task in a professional and timely
manner. By doing so it allows you to keep track of your progress as you scratch one off the list, it
also helps motivate you to keep going. Why it is important to improve ourselves every day. This
reflects as great performance and give you room for promotions and pay raises. Evaluate our
work, if we can identify our weaknesses and create a plan to improve on those weak areas we
can learn and understand new responsibilities. In addition, it will make it easier to understand
Important to always be in a positive attitude. Positive people tend to be more motivated and
have a higher morale. It can help you promote willingness to perform at a higher level
consistently.
Summarize
In a hand full I can say that ethics for a person rather it be on work or off work can provide a
great way to improve our morals and values. I cannot stress enough the importance of ethics. It
doing well even when nobody is watching. Making the decision of good or bad behavior in the
work place, or showing how much you care about your job duties. Ethics is the moral principle
that makes the decisions of ones behavior. Ethics is the behavior that we use in work or off work
its a reflection of our moral principles. Overall ethics should be a concern to our moral
Week 3 8
judgement about right and wrong. The decisions we face in an organization depend on our
morals, values, and work ethics, and depending how we make those decision we can influenced